//Shirasu Azusa 2024.03
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
#define fi first
#define se second
#define eb emplace_back
#define mp make_pair
using namespace std;
typedef long double ld;
typedef long long ll;
typedef unsigned long long ull;
typedef __int128 i128;
template<typename T,typename U>
T ceil(T x, U y) {return (x>0?(x+y-1)/y:x/y);}
template<typename T,typename U>
T floor(T x, U y) {return (x>0?x/y:(x-y+1)/y);}
template<class T,class S>
bool chmax(T &a,const S b) {return (a<b?a=b,1:0);}
template<class T,class S>
bool chmin(T &a,const S b) {return (a>b?a=b,1:0);}
int popcnt(int x) {return __builtin_popcount(x);}
int popcnt(ll x)  {return __builtin_popcountll(x);}
int topbit(int x) {return (x==0?-1:31-__builtin_clz(x));}
int topbit(ll x)  {return (x==0?-1:63-__builtin_clzll(x));}
int lowbit(int x) {return (x==0?-1:__builtin_ctz(x));}
int lowbit(ll x)  {return (x==0?-1:__builtin_ctzll(x));}

#define rep(i,a,b) for(int i=(a);i<=(b);i++)
#define per(i,a,b) for(int i=(a);i>=(b);i--)
typedef pair<int,int> pii;
typedef vector<int> vi;
typedef vector<pii> vp;
typedef tuple<int,int,int> tiii;
int read() {
  int x=0,w=1; char c=getchar(); 
  while(!isdigit(c)) {if(c=='-') w=-1; c=getchar();}
  while(isdigit(c)) {x=x*10+(c-'0'); c=getchar();} 
  return x*w;
}

const int N=1e5+5;
int n;
vi e[N];
priority_queue<int> q[N];

void dfs(int u,int fa) {
  for(int v:e[u]) if(v!=fa) {
    dfs(v,u);
    if(q[u].size()<q[v].size()) swap(q[u],q[v]);
    while(!q[v].empty()) q[u].push(q[v].top()), q[v].pop();
  }
  int sz=1,p0=0,p1=0;
  rep(t,0,1) if(q[u].size()) {
    int x=q[u].top(); q[u].pop(); sz+=x;
    if(!p0) p0=x; else p1=x;
  }
  if(p0==0||p1==0||(p0&1)||(p1&1)) q[u].push(sz);
  else q[u].push(1), q[u].push(sz-1);
}

signed main() {
  freopen("bird.in","r",stdin);
  freopen("bird.out","w",stdout);
  n=read();
  rep(i,2,n) {
    int u=read(), v=read();
    e[u].eb(v), e[v].eb(u);
  }
  dfs(1,0);
  printf("%d\n",q[1].top());
  return 0;
}